Pixelshrink Digital Impact has been working with university-based projects from day one, and weโre passionate about demystifying academic research and making it more accessible.
We’re proud to have been involved with some award-winning research projects, which are really making a difference to people’s lives.
Some of the projects we’ve worked on are aiming to:
- save carbon emissions and energy usage
- help people living with dementia benefit from technology
- support people’s mental health
Let’s find out a bit more about them and why they’ve been winning awards.
EV-elocity is fuelling the key role Vehicle to Grid technology could play a key role in the energy transition, by increasing the data available on its benefits.
Nine V2G sites with bidirectional chargers were deployed at various locations across the UK. Background data was collected over more than 12 months and these datasets were then combined to predict charging and discharging opportunities and enable the development of models to optimise battery longevity as well as cost and carbon savings.
Pixelshrink developed the website, including the online maps of charging points and charging support pages accessed by users via a QR code.
The project won the Energy & Environment category in The Engineer magazineโs 2022 Collaborate To Innovate (C2I) awards. These were launched to uncover and celebrate great examples of engineering collaboration โ a dynamic critical to addressing many of the challenges and problems faced by society.
- ‘Special commendation’ in the 2021 UK Trial Manager of the Year Awards
- Featured on BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind
The NEON Project is finding out whether having online access to peopleโs real-life stories of recovery from mental ill health can be helpful for people experiencing psychosis or other mental health problems and their carers.
Firstly the project developed a good understanding about what a recovery story is, how recovery stories make an impact, and how to collect and present these stories. Many recovery stories were collected, particularly from those whose voices are not often heard by mainstream cultures. Subsequently, the project is testing whether people benefit from viewing, hearing and reading these recovery stories.
The UK Trial Manager’s Network supports the development of a well-trained, highly motivated, effective workforce of trial managers (someone who has responsibility for the day-to-day management of a clinical trial). Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, a member of the Recovery Research Team who is responsible for the NEON study, received the ‘special commendation’ in the 2021 UK Trial Manager of the Year Awards.
Project SCENe looks to accelerate the adoption of Community Energy Systems, a different way of generating and supplying locally generated heat and electricity to homes and commercial buildings. These reduce cost and increase efficiency and stability of UK power networks. Most of the necessary technologies are available but they are too expensive for consumers to invest in themselves and the business model is not in place that shows companies how they will make a return, so the project takes a blank canvas of a new housing development to explore the technology.
SCENe generates its own renewable energy from the homes’ solar panels. These feed Europeโs largest community battery, supplied by Tesla, that stores power locally and is connected to the national grid. Monitoring systems tell occupants how much energy they’re using.
The project won the Energy & Environment category in The Engineer magazineโs 2019 Collaborate To Innovate (C2I) awards.
Could your website be the next award winner?
Pixelshrink has established a distributed team of experts who love bridging the gap between research projects and their audiences, through innovative methods of engagement and presentation of complex data. We’re primed to get your research project online quickly, and allow it to grow organically as the project develops.
So if you need a website for your research project, contact us or look at our brochure to see what other specialist digital marketing services for research projects we provide.
